LATE spring 2023
☻ 6 February 2023 - 2 June 2023 ☻
FOR LATE START PROGRAM
Middle School/High School Program
GRADES 6-12
GRADES 6-12
RETURNING BEGINNER COMPETITIVE
Our child will be competing for the academy and/or their school team and took the beginner Speech and Beginner Debate class last semester (Summer program please enroll in new beginner) OR they have prior experience from another program but not enough to join experienced classes. Our child is interested in continuing to pursue competitions and improve on their skillset to advance to the experienced classes.
- GRADES 6-12
Class Descriptions:
☻Daily guided lectures for their respective speech and debate events.
☻NSDA & CHSSA approved speech events will be offered and grouped into two tracks:
-Limited Prep (Impromptu/ National and International Exemp) and Public Address (OO/Info/OA)
-Impromptu and Interpretation (HI/DI/OI)
☻Public Forum and Lincoln Douglas will be offered as debate formats to compete in during the year.
☻Will be presented a series of lectures on the debate format and structure of argumentation within the format.
Prerequisites:
- Students who have attended one or two semesters of our beginner competitive classes and understands the basics of both speech and debate (students who only know speech will be required to take the beginner program for new students to debate and vice versa).
- Students who are changing debate events will be required to take the new student set of classes unless they can demonstrate proficiency on the basics of the debate event they are switching into.
- Students who were enrolled in our program last semester and did not finish last semester's participation requirements will need to repeat their program. Please email for recommendation if unsure.
- Students must be able to participate in 6-8 competitions in the events taught per semester (3 for speech and 3 for debate in the Fall and 4 for speech and 4 for debate in the Spring).
- Failure to do so means we ask you to join the educational class the following semester or you repeat the beginner course until you have met the pre-requisites.
Note: We will accept the first 12 students who enroll for in person classes. We will accept more students online as long as we can maintain a 8:1 student to instructor ratio. We will waitlist until we find additional instructors.
Tuition:
$1695 for twice-a-week online classes
!!! IF YOU HAVE ONLY TAKEN OUR SUMMER CLASSES/CAMPS IN THE PAST, PLEASE REGISTER FOR OUR NEW BEGINNER COMPETITIVE OR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS INSTEAD !!!
Which type of class are you looking to sign up for?
ONLINE ONLY CLASSES ARE OPEN TO STUDENTS OF ANY STATES, TIMES ARE CONDUCTED IN PDT